What goes around

Last year, I predicted the very predictable fall of YouTuber Turkey Tom. The accusations against him, which are discussed in the video here, hardly come as a surprise to those who are familiar with that personality type. For legal purposes, I should point out that as far as I’m aware, Turkish Thomas has yet to address these allegations. So as it stands now, these are just accusations. Nevertheless, I think the news has come at a very timely moment. And thank you to Muck Hole for doing my homework. Turkey Tom is a near perfect example of the “Trumpist” mindset, which I sat out to distinguish from the typical fascist mindset in my prior post. Is there some overlap? Sure. I might discuss that at a later time. But Trumpism rests in a bizarre state that is both more benign yet far more terrifyingly nihilistic than fascism. Read the comments section of Muck Hole’s video and you might see comical variations of the Nietzschean saying “when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back.” And that’s a correct summation on the matter. In my view, the video does a pretty good job of explaining the psychological loops one finds themselves in prior to making the great leap into fascism. The internet has been an abyss we’ve been staring down for nearly 30 years. This combined with the economic and political situation we’re experiencing under neoliberalism, it was only a matter of time before someone came along and flicked the switch into full blown authoritarianism.